Improved buckle



CHARLES E. WOODMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Leners Param No. 89,110, dated Apm'z 2o, 1869.

IMPROVE!) BUCKLE.

The Schedule referred to iu these Letters Patent and making part of the lama.

To all persons to whom these presents may come Be it known that I, CHARLES E. WooDMAN, of Boston, ofthe county of Suifolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented' in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view;

Figure 2, a bottom view;

Figure 3, an end elevation; and

Figure 4, a transverse section of a buckle containing my invention.

It is a tongueless buckle, the body part A, as represented, being made of a plate metal.

This body part has along slot, or mouth b, made through it, near one edge of it, the metal being bent so. as to form a lip, c or c', to either or each edge of the mouth, or slot.

This lip stands at an obtuse angle to the plate, or is arranged with respect to the mouth, in manner as represented. l

Besides such slot, there is another long slot e, and two shorter ones ff, made through the body plate, they being arr. nged in the body in manner as shown in the drawings.

A loop, C, pivoted to the plate A, or turns on the parts g y, which are between the slot-s f f and the slot e.

This loop is for the attaching of the buckle to a strap or other article.

The tongue, or strap which is to be secured by the buckle is to go up through the month l) and against the edge of its lips, and thence is to be passed down through the back slot e. The said lip, or lips, operating with the back slot, will serve to hold the tongue,

or strip, and prevent the buckle from slipping in or through it.

The advantage of this buckle over one made with a movable tongue is that the former can be constructed much cheaper than the latter, and it has been found in practice that it will hold a strap as Well, if not much better, and that it will no t cut the strap as the movable plate-tongue is liable to do, and invariably does when in use. It should be observed that I have no reference to a movable tongue, which, when used, is to go through a hole made in the strap; but I refer to a movable tongue, against whose edge the strap is to bear.

This kind of a tongue, by reason of being hinged to the body of the buckle, will, when in use, be so drawn down upon the strap as to'pinch it, and, in course of a short time, out it nearly, if not quite through.

In making my buckle, I have sought to attain one which would avoid the pinching of the strap, and I have found the stationary lip to the strap mouth to effect all that is desirable, inclusive of other advantages besides such as I have enumerated.

I make no claim to a buckle as made with a movable tongue-that is, a tongue pivoted to the body of the buckle.

I claim as my invention- The improved buckle, as constructed, with the stationary lip or lips, arranged with the receiving-mouth, and to operate with the auxiliary mouth, or slot of the body, in manner substantially as explained.

v O. E. WOODMAN.

Witnesses:

F. S. Munnrrr, E L. MCCLURE. 

